TO EVENING
by: Sappho
HESPERUS!
Thou bringest all things home;
- All that the garish day hath scattered wide;
- The sheep, the goat, back to the welcome fold;
- Thou bring'st the child, too, to his mother's side.
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This English translation, by William
Hyde Appleton, of 'To Evening' is reprinted from Greek Poets
in English Verse. Ed. William Hyde Appleton. Cambridge: The
Riverside Press, 1893. |
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